Marc Hecker

• Marc Hecker - acoustic guitar

I have been playing guitar and singing since my teenage years. I appear regularly at area open mic nights, including Old Songs, Hudson River Coffee House, and Professor Java's. I have also performed gigs at Tierra Roasters and the Israel Cafe in Albany, the Moon and River Cafe in Schenectady, Arlington House in West Sand Lake, and The William K. Sanford Colonie Town Library. I have entertained veterans and staff at the Stratton VA Medical Center where I am employed as a Doctor of Optometry. I have played for the Congregation Ohav Shalom Seder for the Disabled and the annual awards dinner for the Aspire organization for young adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). I have presented purely instrumental classical and jazz selections in small recitals as a member of the former Capital District Guitar Performance Group. My daughter Melanie, a poet who has ASD, accompanies me to my musical programs at area senior citizens centers. I have studied with world-class musicians at the National Guitar Workshop in New Milford, Conn. For 15 years, I was a tenor and regular guitarist with the Ne'imah Jewish Community Chorus. In addition, I have been a professional High Holiday Cantor at area synagogues.
I specialize in classic folk and blues. I also play contemporary popular hits, instrumental jazz, classical pieces, Broadway show tunes, and Israeli folk music. Demo CDs are available.

• Dust in the Wind - Kansas
• Unchained Melody - Alex North/Hy Zarett
• Ain't That A Kick in the Head? - Sammy Cahn/Jimmy van Heusen
• Wild World - Cat Stevens
• I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song - Jim Croce
• Time in a Bottle - Jim Croce
• Sundown - Gordon Lightfoot
• Take Me Home, Country Road - John Denver
• Annie's Song - John Denver
• Teach Your Children Well - Crosby, Stills, and Nash
• Homeward Bound - Simon and Garfunkel
• Scarborough Fair - Simon and Garfunkel
• The Sounds of Silence - Simon and Garfunkel
• Hernando's Hideaway - Richard Adler/Jerry Ross
• Fire and Rain - James Taylor
• King of the Road - Roger Miller
• Worse Comes to Worst - Billy Joel
• An Innocent Man - Billy Joel
• The Longest Time - Billy Joel
• You're My Home - Billy Joel
• Build Me Up, Buttercup - The Foundations
• City of New Orleans - Steve Goodman
• I'm Not Sayin' - Gordon Lightfoot
• Erev Shel Shoshanim - Yosef Hadar/Moshe Dor
• Reason To Believe - Tim Hardin
• Here Comes the Sun - Beatles
• Tears in Heaven - Eric Clapton
• Layla/Wonderful Tonight - Eric Clapton
• A Lot of Livin' to Do - Charles Strouse/Lee Adams
• If You Could Read My Mind - Gordon Lightfoot
• Trumpet Voluntary - Jonathan Clarke
• Moonshadow - Cat Stevens
• Blowin' in the Wind - Bob Dylan
• The Last Thing on My Mind - Tom Paxton
• Fill My Eyes - Cat Stevens
• Kathy's Song - Simon and Garfunkel
• This Train is Bound for Glory - Woody Guthrie
• Hard Travelin' - Woody Guthrie
• So Long, It's Been Good to Know You - Woody Guthrie
• Everything I Do (I Do it For You) - Bryan Adams
• Goodbye, Again - John Denver
• I'll Never Find Another You - Tom Springfield
• More I Cannot Wish You - Frank Loesser
• Standin' on the Corner - Frank Loesser
• Vincent (Starry, Starry Night) - Don McClean
• Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring - J.S. Bach
• Prelude - J.S. Bach
• Canon in D - Pachelbel
• They Call the Wind Maria - Lerner and Loewe
• I Ain't Marchin' Anymore - Phil Ochs
• Father and Son - Cat Stevens
• Longer - Dan Fogelberg
• Bei Mir Bis Du Schoen - Secunda/Jacobson/Cahn/Chaplin
• Exodus - Ernest Gold/Pat Boone
• Yerushalayim Shel Zahav - Naomi Shemer
• One Way Ticket Home - Phil Ochs
• Yesterday - The Beatles
• Have You Ever Seen the Rain? - John Fogerty
• Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny Cash
• Folk Song Army - Tom Lehrer
• Sad Lisa - Cat Stevens
• On Broadway - Lieber and Stoller
• Send in the Clowns - Stephen Sondheim
• Unworthy of Your Love - Stephen Sondheim
• With So Little to be Sure of - Stephen Sondheim
• Good Riddance (The Time of Your Life) - Billy Joe Armstrong
• House of the Rising Sun - Traditional
• Me and Bobby McGee - Kris Kristofferson
• Song for a Winter's Night - Gordon Lightfoot
• Bad Moon Rising - John Fogerty
• Sixteen Tons - Merle Travis
• Power and the Glory - Phil Ochs
• A Horse with No Name - Dewey Bunnell
• Cat's in the Cradle - Harry Chapin
• She Sings Songs Without Words - Harry Chapin
• There is Nothin' Like a Dame - Rodgers and Hammerstein
• Cotton Jenny - Gordon Lightfoot
• Leader of the Band - Dan Fogelberg
• Don't Think Twice, It's All Right - Bob Dylan

Anniversaries, Bachelor Parties, Bachelorette Parties, Banquets, Birthday Parties, Children's Birthday Parties, Celebrations, Christenings, Christmas Parties, Church Services, Clubs, Community Events, Conventions, Corporate Functions, Dinner Dances, Events, Festivals, Fund Raisers, Funerals, Graduation Parties, Grand Openings, Picnic, Private Parties, Proms, Restaurants, Sweet 16 Parties, Weddings, Wedding Ceremonies, Wedding Cocktail Hours, Wedding Receptions...and more.

• Not Available